Charlie Chaplin
Known for: Acting
Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.
Filmography
Series
American Experience
Self
1988
Series
Omnibus
Self
1967
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage)
1987
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1974
Series
The Oscars
1953
Film
The Great Dictator
Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
1940
Film
Modern Times
The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
1936
Film
City Lights
A Tramp
1931
Film
The Kid
A Tramp
1921
Film
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2025
Film
The Circus
A Tramp
1928
Film
The Gold Rush
The Lone Prospector
1925
Film
Limelight
Calvero
1952
Film
Monsieur Verdoux
Henri Verdoux
1947
Series
The DuPont Show of the Week
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
A Countess from Hong Kong
An Old Steward
1967
Film
Show People
Charlie Chaplin (uncredited)
1928
Film
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Film
Police
Charlie, Convict 999
1916
Film
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Film
A King in New York
King Shahdov
1957
Film
Hitler: A Career
Self (archive footage)
1977
Film
A Dog's Life
Tramp
1918
Film
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Station Porter (uncredited)
1923
Film
The Tramp
The Tramp
1915
Film
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
1982
Film
His Regeneration
A Customer
1915
Series
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
By the Sea
Stroller
1915
Film
Shoulder Arms
Doughboy
1918
Film
The Rink
A Waiter
1916
Film
High & Low – John Galliano
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Shanghaied
Tramp
1915
Film
The Eternal Jew
Self (1931) (archive footage)
1940
Film
Those Love Pangs
Masher
1914
Film
The Chaplin Revue
Narrator / Various (archive footage)
1959
Film
The Champion
Challenger
1915
Film
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Film
The Pilgrim
The Pilgrim / Lefty Lombard
1923
Film
The Masquerader
Film actor
1914
Series
Unknown Chaplin
Self & in Out-Takes
1983
Film
Easy Street
The Derelict
1917
Film
The Adventurer
The Eel / Commodore Slick
1917
Film
Triple Trouble
The Janitor
1918
Film
Pay Day
Laborer
1922
Film
The Immigrant
Immigrant
1917
Film
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
A Woman
Gentleman / 'Nora Nettlerash'
1915
Film
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Film
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995
Film
The Big Parade of Comedy
Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Film
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
1976
Film
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Film
Caught in a Cabaret
Waiter
1914
Film
Dancing Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
Souls for Sale
Self - Celebrity Director
1923
Film
The Count
Tailor's Apprentice
1916
Film
The Bond
Charlie
1918
Film
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Shrek's Thrilling Tales
Guy Dude Man, The Human Homo sapiens (voice)
2012
Film
The Idle Class
Tramp / Husband
1921
Film
The Bank
Janitor
1915
Film
Cruel, Cruel Love
Mr. Dovey
1914
Film
Twenty Minutes of Love
Pickpocket
1914
Film
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
The Pawnshop
Pawnbroker's Assistant
1916
Film
Caught in the Rain
Tipsy Hotel Guest aka The Tramp (uncredited)
1914
Film
Tillie's Punctured Romance
The City Guy
1914
Film
Making a Living
The Swindler (uncredited)
1914
Film
Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
1923
Film
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1970
Film
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
Self (Archive Footage)
2025
Film
A Thief Catcher
Cop (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Rounders
Mr. Full
1914
Film
The Fireman
Fireman
1916
Film
Seeing Stars
Self
1922
Film
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
The Lone Prospector (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Film
A Burlesque on Carmen
Darn Hosiery
1915
Film
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
A Night Out
Reveller
1915
Film
The Golden Twenties
(archive footage)
1950
Film
30 Years of Fun
(archive footage)
1963
Film
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Self (archive footage)
1984
Film
Mabel's Strange Predicament
The Tramp (uncredited)
1914
Film
Smile!
Archive footage
2024
Film
The Property Man
Property Man (uncredited)
1914
Film
Kid Auto Races at Venice
The Tramp
1914
Film
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self - In Clip with Paulette Goddard (archive footage)
1988
Film
The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
In the Park
Charlie
1915
Film
Behind the Screen
David - Property Man's Assistant
1916
Film
Buñuel in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
El último panfleto
Self
1995
Film
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Mabel at the Wheel
Villain (uncredited)
1914
Film
Warner at War
(archive footage)
2008
Film
His New Profession
Charlie
1914
Film
A Jitney Elopement
Suitor, the Fake Count
1915
Film
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
His New Job
Film Extra
1915
Film
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Film
The Professor
Professor Bosco
1919
Film
Mabel's Busy Day
Tipsy Nuisance
1914
Film
The Vagabond
The Saloon Violinist
1916
Film
The Movie Album
(archive footage)
1932
Film
Chaplin vs the FBI
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Laughing Gas
Dentist's assistant
1914
Film
A Day's Pleasure
Father
1919
Film
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Artist
1914
Film
Sunnyside
Farm Handyman
1919
Film
The Fatal Mallet
Suitor aka The Tramp (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Casting Couch
1995
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Film
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
One A.M.
Le bourgeois alcoolisé
1916
Film
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
Self (archive footage)
2028
Film
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
Tango Tangles
Tipsy Dancer
1914
Film
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
1953
Film
A Night in the Show
Mr. Pest / Mr. Rowdy
1915
Film
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
The Cure
The Inebriate
1917
Film
When Comedy Was King
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
Film
The Knockout
Referee (uncredited)
1914
Film
His Musical Career
Charlie, Piano Mover
1914
Film
Between Showers
The Tramp, a Second Gallant
1914
Film
The New Janitor
The Janitor
1914
Film
German Giants
Self
1954
Film
Dough and Dynamite
Pierre
1914
Film
Hollywood's Second World War
Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)
2019
Film
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
Film
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
1998
Film
A Film Johnnie
The Film Johnnie aka The Tramp
1914
Film
His Favorite Pastime
Drunken Masher
1914
Film
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Lifetime of Comedy
(archive footage)
1960
Film
His Prehistoric Past
Weakchin
1914
Film
A Busy Day
Wife
1914
Film
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Gentlemen of Nerve
Mr. Wow-Woe, Track Fanatic
1914
Film
Work
Izzy A. Wake's assistant
1915
Film
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Mike
1926
Film
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
The Floorwalker
Impecunious Customer
1916
Film
Recreation
Tramp
1914
Film
Life Begins Tomorrow
Self (archive footage)
1950
Film
Getting Acquainted
Mr. Sniffels
1914
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
Self
2018
Film
The Way of the World
The Tramp (Archive Footage)
1947
Film
The Hollywood Clowns
(archive footage)
1979
Film
Chaplin et Les temps modernes, La voie du silence
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
The Chaplin Puzzle
Self / The Tramp (archive footage)
1992
Film
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Film
His Trysting Places
Clarence, the Husband
1914
Film
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
The Movie City of Hollywood
Self
1928
Film
Nice and Friendly
Tramp
1922
The Parrott Chase
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
Film
Silent Clowns
Self(archive footage)
2006
Film
The Gentleman Tramp
Self
1976
Film
ViennaFilm 1896-1976
Self (archive footage)
1977
Film
Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
The Star Boarder
The Star Boarder aka The Tramp (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Circus: Premiere
Self
1928
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Mabel's Married Life
Mabel's Husband
1914
Film
A Night at the Cinema in 1914
(archive footage)
2014
Film
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
Film
Chase Me Charlie
Charlie
1918
Film
Sigrid Holmquist
Himself (archive footage)
2010
Film
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
How to Make Movies
Self (uncredited)
1918
Film
Chaplin Today: Limelight
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
All at Sea
Self
1933
Film
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
Darn Hosiery
1951
Film
Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work
(archive footage)
2003
Film
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
Self (archive footage)
2003
Charlie's Triple Trouble
Charlie - The Janitor (archive footage)
1944
Film
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
Chaplin Today: The Kid
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Crazy Days
Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
Chaplin Carnival
Various Roles (archive footage)
1938
Film
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
1955
Film
Chaplin Today: The Circus
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
The Charlie Chaplin Festival
Various Roles (archive footage)
1941
Film
Chaplin at Keystone
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Charlie Chaplin Meets Harry Lauder
A Tramp
1917
Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp
Self (archive footage)
1980
Film
Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Chaplin's Goliath
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Charlie Butts In
1920
Film
Looking for Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Chaplin Today: A King in New York
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
Self (archive footage)
2016
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
(archive footage)
2007
Zepped
The Tramp
1916
Film
Chaplin Today: City Lights
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Self
1917
The Funniest Man in the World
Self (archive footage)
1967
Film
The Chaplin Cavalcade
Various Roles (archive footage)
1941
Film
Bravo Charlot!
Various characters (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
1994
Film
This Is Francis X. Bushman
Self (Archive Footage)
2021
Film
Chaplin Today: Modern Times
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Chaplin in Bali
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Her Friend the Bandit
Bandit
1914
Film
Charlie Chaplin in Wien
Self (archive footage)
1931
Film
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
2023
Film
The Chaplin Essanay Project
1918
Film
Charlie Chaplin at Mutual Studios I
(archive footage)
1984
Film
The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2
2017
Film
Chaplin's Mutual Comedies 1916-1917
2014
Film
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends
(archive footage)
2016
Film
Charlie Chaplin's visit to the French Cinematheque
Self
1973
Film
Chaplin's Limelight: Its Evolution and Intimacy
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Bali: Island of the Dogs
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 1
2004
The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 9
2004